The tough wife has room to farm

Chapter 283 Coming from the Western Plateau
The business and workshops of the Shen family are still thriving step by step. After all, there are not many ordinary people who have discovered this sign, and those low-level officials can enjoy it easily for a day as long as no one complains.

The whole range maintains a peaceful illusion of not knowing the approaching danger.

When Shen Pingxi left that day, he didn't know where he went. After a day and a night, he returned to his home in Nanhe Village. His companions also brought back a young man about his age.

This person is about 25 years old, dressed in low-key dark clothes, with a gentle appearance, standing next to the tall and mighty Shen Pingxi, there is a sense of a woman disguised as a man.

If it wasn't for Nuan Nuan's confidence in her husband, she would have thought that this was the rhythm of preparing for the junior to come to see the elder sister.

After seeing the members of the Shen family, the visitor modestly regarded himself as a younger brother, and called Wen Nuan his sister-in-law just like Qiu Shangping did. Both the Wang family and the Wang family were aunts. good upbringing.

But when it comes to the identity of this person, Shen Pingxi even explained to his wife in one sentence, saying that he is a small official nearby, and it happened to come here by chance at this time, and he wanted to see the development of the insect disaster here. and the effects of drought on crops.

When he was busy preparing meals for the guests, Nuan Nuan approached Shen Pingxi and pouted next to him, "Little Xixi, you still want to hide it from me, that Luo Bingqin is not a small official from our neighborhood at all, he is from the capital, right?" , the accent is like the tune over there."

Shen Pingxi did not deny it, but just teased his wife jokingly, "You seem to have heard the accent from the capital, your husband and I look like a Beijing official?"

Wen Nuan still maintained the first intuition detected by her keen sixth sense, and was convinced that it was correct.

Turn around and walk away, "You're just a big bastard from the army, with a Northwestern accent, those who didn't know thought you were a fool who escaped from the military service!"

Wen Nuan's words are really figurative, because Shen Pingxi himself is from the Northwest, and then moved to Kyoto, and then he was always in the Northwest Frontier Army in the military camp, but Qiu Shangping had a pure Kyoto film accent.

Wen Nuan asked Qiu Shangping who had been away for a while, "Pingxi, do you have any news about Shangping when you entered the city? He should be able to see some things over there. I don't know what the Nenjiang side is like now."

"The shopkeeper Liu happened to come back from that Huizhou mansion. He is now at HSBC. Shang Ping will come back in a day or two. After all, even if he wants to start construction there, Shang Ping will call the former workers to go. They know the style best, so they can save a lot of worry.”

From this day on, a strange small circle appeared in the Shen family, Nuan Nuan rarely went to the back workshop, walked around as usual, tasted the taste of their finished products, and so on.

Instead, he and Shen Pingxi, Wen Liang, and the outsider Luo Bingqin gathered in the study to discuss and discuss, and sometimes wandered around the farmland outside. Those who didn’t know how many fields the Shen family had Food was grown.

A few days later, Qiu Shangping, who had a black name, also came to Nanhe Village, joined the group, and brought back news from outside.

"Sister-in-law, things are really not good. I came back in such a hurry this time because I wanted to talk to you about it. I think the locust plague has basically taken shape. From our side to the south, I saw it from various wharf towns in the Nen River Basin. The general situation of the shop and the market is towards the east, and the situation in the east is not bad, although there is a period of time when the rain is not frequent, but fortunately it is close to the Nen River, so the drought is not a serious problem."

"When you go west, the situation becomes less and less ideal. Small batches of locust plagues have appeared in many places, but the number is not very large, and the damage to crops is not serious. It is only a small-scale reduction in production, and it has not yet reached the grain size. No income situation."

In the study room, the large desk that is warm and usually writes and draws has been moved to the center of the room, and the chairs are scattered around the table, as if it has become a large conference room, with an open map on it.

This is the map of the whole country of Daliang brought by Shen Pingxi and Luo Bingqin. In the absence of widespread printing, this map is extremely precious.

But Wen Nuan still used a bamboo stick dyed red to mark the location of Huifeng City.

After listening to what Qiu Shangping said, Wen Nuan walked up to the map again, and inserted some black bamboo sticks and green bamboo sticks on it according to the news that Qiu Shangping brought, indicating that the local area is currently receiving pests. Condition.

"Look, as far as Huainan Road is concerned, insects have already appeared around Linbin City in the Nenjiang River Basin that is on the same line as us. That's because there are no mountains around it and the terrain is flat, and the locusts can arrive without resistance. Here, enjoy their gluttonous feast, and then lay eggs and reproduce."

"As long as we have high mountains in the west, I think the situation here is almost the same as ours. It's just that because of the hot and dry weather, local locusts have begun to unearth and reproduce and gather on a large scale."

Shen Pingxi watched Nuan Nuan's little hand quickly pointing on the map, and agreed in his heart, what his wife said was very reasonable, now those places in the west have almost started to be affected, and the area is almost half the size of Daliang country.

People may notice it, but they don't think about what kind of disaster it will be when the real disaster breaks out. They may think that if the locusts leave, they won't come back. There is no such good thing.

Luo Bingqin's expression was serious. What he saw here these days was beyond imagination. Daliang was already like this. How come he didn't receive any news from the capital?

He couldn't help raising his head and looking around at all the people put inside. If it weren't for them, he might be like those people, still indulging in peace and tranquility, not knowing that the sword of fate had already reached his neck!
Qiu Shangping was very puzzled by this matter, and asked curiously, "Sister-in-law, how did these locusts come here? The weather is so dry, the terrain is high in the west, and the distribution of water sources is limited. Don't these insects die of thirst? "

He thought in his heart, on such a hot day, these insects flew so far, if they were either sunburned or exhausted, how could they become a disaster?
But everything in front of him forced him to believe that this was the fact that there had only been one serious locust plague since the founding of Daliang Kingdom, but is it going to start again now?
This news makes people feel depressed and can't help worrying. The people present are not worried about food, drink, or money, but that this kind of year is not happy for anyone. Peaceful and prosperous times are what the people want , this one will never change.

(End of this chapter)